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Henry E. Huntington letter to Corporations Auxiliary Company


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    Henry E. Huntington letters to Southern Pacific Company

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    Also: letter from Julius Kruttschnitt to Huntington, 1921 December 29; letter from Southern Pacific Company to Huntington, 1926 May 27.

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    Shreve & Co. letters to Henry E. Huntington

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    Also: copies of four letters from Huntington to Shreve & Co., 1903 November-December; letter from William E. Dunn to Huntington, 1903 December 16. Subjects: Collis P. Huntington's estate, Automobile Club trophy.

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    Corporations Auxiliary Co. letter to Henry E. Huntington

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    The collection consists of the personal and business papers of Henry E. Huntington. There is material related to the Huntington, Holladay, and Metcalf families, but most of the collection deals with Huntington's business interests in Southern California, railways, real estate, and industry. Series 2. Henry E. Huntington and his family includes biographical information, newspaper clippings, photographs, scrapbooks, ephemera, and physical objects. There is material related to the Huntington Land and Improvement Company, Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, and the Pacific Electric Railway Company as well as other businesses in Los Angeles County, Orange County, and San Gabriel Valley, California. This material includes business records, account books, annual reports, correspondence, maps, tracts, balance sheets, and others. There is also material related to the founding of the Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens including auction catalogs, invoices, receipts, and bills for art and rare books, and information regarding a lawsuit about Huntington's estate tax after his death, and the passing of Proposition 15, in 1930, which exempted The Huntington from paying California property tax. There is also material related to Collis P. Huntington and his business interests and Arabella Huntington. Also included are the blueprints for the Huntington's San Marino residence. Series 3. Correspondence contains over 22,000 pieces of personal and business correspondence spanning 1794 to 1970. The physical objects include Henry E. Huntington's lunch box, razors, traveling trunk, and other items.

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    Henry E. Huntington letter to Mission Playhouse Corporation

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    Also: letter from Mission Playhouse Corporation to Huntington, 1926 December 29.

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    Goldsmiths & Silversmiths Company letters to Henry E. Huntington

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    Also: copy of letter from Huntington to Goldsmiths & Silversmiths Company, 1921 December 26, and printed description of a Paul Lamerie Toilet Service.

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    Henry E. Huntington letters to Botsford & Botsford

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    Also: letter from Botsford & Botsford to Huntington, 1902 December 19; letter from Botsford & Botsford to Isaac Edwin Gates, 1903 June 19. Subjects: Collis P. Huntington's estate, Warsaw, New York, property.

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